Stephen Hawking’s Warning That AI Amplifies the Illusion of Knowledge

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it’s the illusion of knowledge,” Stephen Hawking warned, echoing a line often attributed to historian Daniel Boorstin. Psychologists Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil showed in a 2002 Yale study that people routinely overrate how well they understand everyday mechanisms, and Keil later found in 2015 that internet use can inflate that confidence. AI tools can intensify the gap by making retrieval feel like understanding. The easiest way to feel smart is to recognize a term, nod along, and let the gaps fill themselves in.

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